Nowt wrong with bluebells: one of the best garden plants, one of the rarest world plants, but an unriddable weed in the wrong place.
Nowt wrong with nettles: food source for many butterfly caterpillars and aphid predators. Mine, sun and shade, only ever have perfect leaves - no one is eating them.
Nowt wrong with lily-of-the-valley: until it comes up in the path, and only flowers for 2 weeks, and only smells in the house, or when you get down and dirty.
Nowt wrong with roses: just ugly, dangerous bushes that will rip you apart as sson as look at you.
Nowt wrong with the RHS: but they have gone left, woke and populist. Turning their gardens into theme parks, coffee houses and recreation facilities for pre-school children.
location: Surrey Hills, England, ex-woodland acidic sand. "Have nothing in your garden that you don't know to be useful, or believe to be beautiful."
I have no problem with this at all. I use a lot of native plants in my garden that are described as weeds but thats what I like. I don't grow brambles and I pull nettles up but mainly because they are a pain and there is an abundance of them surrounding us anyway.
Last year with the drought the knapweeds were one of the saving graces, without those we'd have had very little looking ok.
Funnily enough when I was at college I got to design their show garden at Malvern, and we used 'weeds' because they fit the aesthetic, and frankly because we were desperate for plants. This is 2001 I think so we were ahead of the curve! We even sold some of the weeds to the public when the show was over...
"What is hateful to you, do not do to your neighbour".
Nowt wrong with the RHS: but they have gone left, woke and populist. Turning their gardens into theme parks, coffee houses and recreation facilities for pre-school children.
I have no problem with this at all. I use a lot of native plants in my garden that are described as weeds but thats what I like. I don't grow brambles and I pull nettles up but mainly because they are a pain and there is an abundance of them surrounding us anyway.
Last year with the drought the knapweeds were one of the saving graces, without those we'd have had very little looking ok.
There's absolutely nothing wrong with using native plants, and it's probably the best way to deal with climate change. Anything that survives will be welcome. That doesn't alter the fact that the dictionary definition of a weed is "a wild plant that grows where it isn't wanted".
Way over 50% of my garden contains what some would call weeds. I don't have many of the problems that some gardeners have, either because my wildflowers are immune or the weed 'problem' isn't a problem but a delight. I would say, however, that I'm fortunate in not having anything pernicious . I still have to do a lot of weeding, though. Some wildflowers are considered weeds in my garden.
There better had be ! I for one am not afraid to stand up ( if I could get out of my wheelchair) and say ,* I don’t want any weeds in my garden ,I don’t have room , the only weeds I want are in my wild area next to the wildlife pond .Other than that weeds belong in the compost *.There! I’ve said it !
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Nowt wrong with nettles: food source for many butterfly caterpillars and aphid predators. Mine, sun and shade, only ever have perfect leaves - no one is eating them.
Nowt wrong with lily-of-the-valley: until it comes up in the path, and only flowers for 2 weeks, and only smells in the house, or when you get down and dirty.
Nowt wrong with roses: just ugly, dangerous bushes that will rip you apart as sson as look at you.
Nowt wrong with the RHS: but they have gone left, woke and populist. Turning their gardens into theme parks, coffee houses and recreation facilities for pre-school children.
"Have nothing in your garden that you don't know to be useful, or believe to be beautiful."
Last year with the drought the knapweeds were one of the saving graces, without those we'd have had very little looking ok.
Sounds like the National Trust.
There's absolutely nothing wrong with using native plants, and it's probably the best way to deal with climate change. Anything that survives will be welcome. That doesn't alter the fact that the dictionary definition of a weed is "a wild plant that grows where it isn't wanted".
I still have to do a lot of weeding, though. Some wildflowers are considered weeds in my garden.
When you don't even know who's in the team
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